nittany ram wrote:

I can’t root for the Cards as long as Arians is HC.

Can’t root for New England until the temperature in Hell drops below 0 degrees C.

Manning? Gag.

I guess it’s the Panthers by default.

Well put except for Manning. I hope the Panthers destroy the Patriots.

“Imagine the Rams playing in LA when they were the ‘Greatest Show on Turf,’” Dickerson said, referring to the Super Bowl-winning St. Louis team.

“They would have had to go from practice to the studios to do movies. Everybody loves athletes. Actors want to be athletes, and athletes want to be actors. I hope it becomes like that again.”

Perhaps playing in St. Louis without all the distractions made the GSOT all it could be rather than have its players think they can be actors too? Maybe that is why those LA teams never won the Super Bowl.

I read this soon after you posted it and have thought about it a lot. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that a virus is the cause of most if not all cancer. Doubt the non empowered among us will ever see a cure since treatments are more profitable. Seems as though the cure business has dropped off a cliff the last 30 years.

lyser wrote:

So Carolina vs. Denver That is what I would like to see.

Clemson would lose. But the Panthers of Charlotte, North Carolina will win.

People have less disposable income these days so I hope StanK loses his ass.

I’d like a simple answer to my question wherever it is posted.

wv wrote:

bnw wrote:

Bitch about the rich that do help. Bitch about the rich that don’t help. Got it. Thanks.

Well, I dont believe in a ‘system’ that
normalizes and allows ‘rich’ and ‘poor’.
So, in a sense, yes, I will always bitch
about that situation. No big thing, bnw,
just a political difference.

w
v

I didn’t realize we were discussing a system. I thought we were discussing charitable contributions of a pro sports franchise.

About that system that normalizes rich and poor, it has also normalized a substantial middle class which I believe sets it apart from all other systems.

In what system that encompasses hundreds of millions of people are there not the rich and the poor? Or the powerful and the powerless? I consider myself somewhat versed in world history but that answer escapes me.

The MLB St. Louis Cardinals sponsor in a very large way urban and suburban youth baseball throughout the bistate area among other efforts. Dewitt has been a very engaged with the community owner and is very respectful of an organization steeped in tradition that is the pulse of the region for 8 months of the year for at least 6 generations of St. Louisans and people throughout the midwest. The Cardinals are still relevant despite the lack of a huge pot of local TV money because they excel at what they invented, the minor league farm system. They have always had the largest farm system and player development department and spare no expense to find talent. Finding and signing these days is very different with the easy access to information but their player development is second to none. They show the fans that they respect the fans by their commitment to excellence and their desire to win. The fans respond by supporting the team. The former players generally look back on their time as a Cardinal as the best time they had in baseball. It is a first rate organization. They maintain contact with the team greats after their playing career ends. Every spring you get the same interviews from different prospects brought to spring training about being taken aside by this old guy or that old guy giving tips on how to improve their game. Most of those old guys have their bust in Cooperstown. It usually leaves the rookie in awe when he finds out about the the old guys giving him advice. As an organization the Cardinals almost always do it right and the community support is earned.

NERam wrote:

nittany ram wrote:

Except the only consequence of Massey dragging his knuckles across the turf would be deep gouges in the stadium floor.

And so that’s why the Rams needed a new stadium? It wasn’t really greed after all, just a damaged playing field? Wow, you have restored my faith in humanity, and also NFL owners… Thank you for that.

I shall go outside now, in 25 degree weather, and practice long snapping empty milk containers at the mailbox, in contrite obeisance.

Open mailbox?

JL has been dragged down field too often.

InvaderRam wrote:

but i definitely root for the uniform. when pujols left to the angels, i stopped paying attention to him. i can barely bring myself to watch an angels game or even look at a box score. and now heyward has gone to chicago. and he is dead to me. being a sports fan can often be confusing. illogical. but i’ll keep watching as long as it’s fun.

For myself it depends upon how a player leaves. Pooholes left claiming the Cardinals disrespected him by offering a $219 million contract. Haywired wanted a shorter fence in Wrigley and not to be relied upon as a veteran team leader. Good riddance to both.

Well this is the second time the NFL has hit me square in the face with a turd so trying to find something positive out of this is difficult. The only thing I can find is the 4 pm starts that I hope are much more now. That gives me a much greater chance of watching them via network TV and at a time I prefer more. Always hated the 1 pm starts. Somehow in all this I hope StanK loses big time.

Zooey wrote:

bnw wrote:

canadaram wrote:

Zooey wrote:

If the Rams can’t be involved in the playoffs, then I just want to see lots of disgrace and humiliation

Yes, yes a million times yes.

What if it ends like last season with the Patriots winning the super bowl?

People have been banned for saying things less offensive than that, bnw.

Oh.

canadaram wrote:

Zooey wrote:

If the Rams can’t be involved in the playoffs, then I just want to see lots of disgrace and humiliation

Yes, yes a million times yes.

What if it ends like last season with the Patriots winning the super bowl?

wv wrote:

Dak wrote:

Stan’s getting excoriated in the press here, by everybody. Business leaders, government leaders, fans, media … it’s what you’d expect, I guess. There is some very strong vitriol, and most of it comes from that scathing attack on STL as a viable market. I don’t see how Stan can show his face in Missouri again, not that he plans to.

Well, in a diabolical way that works ‘for’ him.
I mean, he can argue to the NFL that relations
are so poisoned and hostile now in St.Louis that
he cant possibly be expected to stay.

w
v

Worse than that he does it at the expense of St. Louis getting another team. StanK salted the field. St. Louis is the Carthage of the NFL.